If all goes as planned, the long-struggling Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority will have paid off its crushing court debt and have $5 million in the bank by the end of this year. That's the financial picture airport officials laid out Tuesday, but they admitted it's far from a done deal. It assumes two land sales netting $14 million will close by year's end. That would not only allow the authority to make the final payment on the $26 million judgment against it for taking private development land in the 1990s, but would fill its coffers to a level not seen since before it started making court payments in 2011. "I think it's very encouraging, given where we were...

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